Doodlebugs and Rockets: Battle of the Flying Bombs - Hardcover

Ogley, Bob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1872337228 ISBN 13: 9781872337227

Publisher: Froglets Publications Ltd, 1992

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Synopsis

This book recreates the atmosphere of life as it was when the flying bombs - V1 and V2, or Doodlebug and Rocket - were launched by the Germans in a last-ditch effort to change the tide of World War II. Using photographs and maps from newspapers, museums and libraries, the book is a history of the weapons and includes many letters and anecdotes. The picture is completed by contemporary documents, statistics and colour photographs of some of those who "played a leading part". The Germans called them the "vengeance weapons". The flying bombs were designed to destroy London, but 100s were shot down on Kent by the RAF and men of the anti-aircraft batteries, or caught by the balloon barage. In terms of casualties, the "doodlebug days" were worse than the Blitz, but the people of Kent faced the onslaught with equanimity, courage and defiance. Appealing in the local press for reminisences and photographs, Bob Ogley was overwhelmed by 100s of letters and scores of telephone calls. Many people remembered how the Doodlebugs roared across the Kentish skies like a badly-tuned motorbike, how the engine cut out and the missile fell silently to earth followed by an earth shattering explosion.

Edition details

• Publisher: Froglets Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1872337228
• ISBN 13: 9781872337227
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208